Truth & Soul Lee Fields just might be the next great late-blooming soul singer in a line that includes Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley and Naomi Shelton. But we would never have gotten to hear Fields if he knew how to fry fish properly. The 62 year-old Fields has been been slogging it out in the clubs for 43 years, but he almost ...

Guy Lowndes Sure, it might sound like a strategic move for the tattoo-clad, Los Angeles-based rocker Hanni El Khatib -- enlisting the help of Dan Auerbach for his sophomore album will surely spike record sales. After all, Auerbach is a hot commodity in the music business these days. Besides packing arenas across the continent on his current ...

Alive Naturalsound Records Picture this: a family of musicians decide to start a band. They record a demo and hand it to one of today's most prolific hitmakers at a bar. He likes what he hears, produces their debut album, takes them on his solo tour across North America as his backing band, then goes on to produce their next two albums -- the ...

Secret City Records It sounds like an indie rock band's dream: jump on a plane and head to Paris to record an album in a big old countryside manor. Montréal-based Plants and Animals had a chance to live it with their new album 'The End of That.' In theory, cutting an album in Paris has all the endearing qualities you could ask for, but ...